PUBLIC MEETING.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 350, 19 November 1875, Page 3

PUBLIC MEETING.

PBOPOSED rOJJKD AT KASIJBT,. On licndiay evening a..vmeeting was called at the Town Hall, Naseby, to consider the desirability or "otherwise of a pound being established at Naseby. ?' t , ' ;

His Woasnip explained that a deputation from cattle owners had waited upon the Council in tho matter, but, the Council wcro not siitisfn-d that the opinion of the district was sufficiently,expressed, and had accordingly determined to calKa public meeting. • ■ ■■■■'. ; Mr. Joseph Cheighton tho »ght* somo. information should b? given as to whether a pouud would be desirable or not—whether it might not do more harm than good. , Mr. i>e Lautouj* said he.h'sid "edinmnnicated'with the Governftieht in the matter, aud was informed that if outside the Municipal boundaries, the name of the. proposed poundkeepcr , and - the locality,, •where it was the J pound must be furnished. * .'lf" within the boundaries the Municipal Council .alone had thef,power ot erecting the-poundr, tion-362 pf, the. Corporation Act,"'.' 18671 I .Hoj thaught "the/ .meeting Rho,uld*'cbme to ,'a decisipri,. as lo whftthpfi tlifey wished a poutid or riot'. If tli*gy r did. K ' no ilouht his Worship would fo ward offers lodged with'-him.from tUoSo willing''to put up a pound,' ancV-keep it. A"hy tenders should descrilio the size, and strength of yards proposed; and the '6Jflict*lScAlity;* Mr. BtKACtf Th&t ttliw* xrfeeting'.is"-in of _ erected." "' -Mi I .' Cftmntotf I Flaps' there would be a pound every day. jMr. Blb kCK: Well,- the mora mischief the better sport. ;■ He thoughtthere. was no suitable place in the Municipality: -Mr. Bleach's-motion wa3 carried. -

Mr> G-BKEit" said' he tirfderitbod* the * Council at their last meeting httd determined to have nothing to do with tiy©* pound., He thought it should be. ttb ou .' : ft . mild from the tokn., If it wasin the town the policcmnri would, be always be putting a cpw; or,ib horse in, but,they would not , carevto waltaa mile.v „ * Mr. Packman : I'll second, thai;; Worship said lie, thought the Council'h/id not decided,' .'btifc.; wished to obtain an opinion;. ' V - n . then proposed—".That tlie Wafityof 'the.;.pound, should bo?a|)6,uti a mile from the Town Hall." .Carije^.,^-,-.. "It was then arranged, that descriptive tenders or offers to erect and keep, a pound should bo left with, the Maypr :up to 11 a.m. on Monday, the . 29th inst., to b * forwarded to the Government for selection".

A vote of thanks-to-the Chairman con eluded thejjusiness. ~i f